Brainwashing the masses and fighting for freedom wherever there's trouble
I remember, one weekend afternoon in November, walking into my mom and dad's room just as my mom was finishing up a phone conversation with her mother. She said she needed to talk to me. The gist of it, and she didn't bother trying to break it me gently, was that Hasbro toys was being pressured by a number of people to stop making G.I. Joe toys. I was shocked. I wanted to know what problem anyone could possibly have with G.I. Joe toys. She explained that some people believed these toys glorified war.
I didn't have a clue as to what was wrong with hyping war.
Looking back at how much the Reagan Administration had spent on the Military. . .
Of course, by the time the G.I. Joe toyline had degenerated into the "War on Drugs" subset, I had pretty much written off all toys, altogether. I'd sold them all in order to buy Atari 7800 games. . . which I later sold in a lot for about twenty bucks, to buy gas.
Recently, though, I did a search and couldn't find the Cobra Pothead, Cottonmouth, for sale on any online auction. I do want that one. That's a pity. As far as I know, Cottonmouth was the only G.I. Joe guy that came in a black, Blue Oyster Cult t-shirt.
But, Reagan. . . In 1986, we went into the red for the first time since WWII. The New York Times 2004 Almanac attributes "a meteoric rise" of the national debt to that asshole. Man, Hinkley deserves conjugal visits from Jodie Foster impersonators just for trying.
Of course, it could've been worse, I could've been into He-Man.
Those kids were *fucked* up.